Former gallery-owner, the last ten years working as a freelance curator, artpromoter and multimedia designer-artist in the field of netart. The During the years I had an contemporary art gallery my interest moved gradually from paintings to installations and conceptual art.

Then in 1994 the computer entered my life.

The contradiction between limitation on the one hand, unlimited freedom and no physical borders on the other hand, created new impulses and insights to explore the possibilities of the medium. My fascination for this platform was born.

I have travelled a long way obtaining the necessary technical skills,studying and experiecing the do's and the don;ts, preparing and presenting concepts of visual artists for the web. It has now become the art form for myself to express and to tell my story.

The images, the words, the colours, the sounds, the motions, they're all ready there. It is like a palet with paint, a keyboard characters,covered with jpg., gif, wave, MP3,mov., doc. and other files. They're at my disposition and I will put them in a new, different context. They form the remains of my travels trough my mind, the virtual world, the real world and life.

More about that Playmobiel exhibition that just opened in Amsterdam. I was particularly intrigued by the software for mobile phones that can scan drawings and transform them into beats, so i asked Ubi de Feo, one of its developers to give me more details about it. He also uploaded images from the show on flickr.

It's called RadarFunk and was conceived by Pips:Lab (initial concept) and TwoDotOne (mobile transposition and additional concepting).

TwoThingsDotOne and Pips:Lab' 3D graffiti

You might have heard of the guys. TwoDotOne was involved in the design of Nokia's new flagship store in Moscow and collaborated to TwoThingsDotOne, a kind of magic coloring books application but for grown-ups to play on walls. Pips:Lab does very nice 3D light graffiti. For example, their luma2solator installation invites the audience to create their own lumasol lightgraffities (photographs recorded with a long shutterspeed). The visitor has 30 seconds to make a drawing with spraycans that produce light. The build-in flash makes it possible to not only see the lightgraffity but also the creating artist. A soundtrack offers the visitor instructions of how the machine is operated (video.)

How does RadarFunk work?

Users are invited to frame one of the several patterns, shoot a picture, and the player starts sending notes to the server.

Framing exactly the center of the image can produce a regular beat, but moving a bit off center can give a shuffle result (swing).

RadarFunk

What's the technology behind the installation?

Several dj's have created some beats, then the beats have been exported as text files. A Director application created by Pips:Lab's founder Keez Duyves converts the text files to color patterns.

The mobile system uses a J2ME application developed by TwoDotOne, it is always connected to a computer ...

Scanner composed music using tapped phone conversations; Blast Theory is famous for their mixed reality games; Arno Coenen designed a floor mosaic based on the interface of a Nokia telephone; Gerald Van Der Kaap handed out a mobile phone plus free minutes to a girl from Amsterdam to film and photograph herself; Leonard van Munster made a few hardware projects using the cell phone as a remote control device (image on the right); Esther Polak uses GPS to visualise the tracks of people resulting in a drawing; together with twodotone, PIPS:lab developed a software for mobile phones that can scan drawings and transform them into beats; Aryan Kaganof shot a feature film on mobile phone cameras; Kate Pemberton designs logo's and designs as wallpapers for the cell phone as well as cross stitching patterns; etc.

Apart from the show at the Arti space, a parallel exhibition will be accessible all over the world by mobile phone. By sending a text message PLAYMOB ON to 3553, you will be sent a short audiovisual work of art to your mobile phone every day of the exhibition. You can also use the ShotCode">ShotCode of PLAYMOBIEL: this 2D barcode contains an encoded link to a website. By taking a picture using your camera phone, you get direct access to the website.

We’re looking for artists whose works explore ideas of how the digital revolution has improved and divided our society, utilizing the same technology they are critiquing. The Center is primarily seeking proposals that create interactive environments that will engage visitors to the space. All work is insured while on exhibition.

Proposal must contain the following information:
•Current artist resume, including address, phone number and email
•Brief artist statement
•Proposed work or installation for Digital Divide/Digital Provide, including drawing of the proposed piece, approximate size, materials utilized, hardware needed, amount of time needed for installation, etc.
•Slides, video, cd or photographs of your current work
•Self addressed, stamped envelope
•Support materials, including past press (optional)

An evening of live sight & sound from Mixel Pixel and Yip-Yip as they
perform alongside, or rather, inside their various video creations.

Hailing from the murky swamps of Florida, spaced invaders Yip-Yip
(http://www.yip-yip.com) will muck it up with their alien freak beats.
Prepare to be annihilated by these tetris terminator twins!

Homegrown New Yorkers Mixel Pixel (http://www.mixelpixel.com) promise to
pop-sate you with live accompaniment to their animated music videos, made by
Mixel Pixel's own Rob Corradetti, as well as other stars such as Noah Lyon,
Devin Clark, Papperad, and Ricard Rivera.

The Images Festival annually exhibits a selection of media arts
installations, new media artworks and "Live Images" performance as part of
our annual festival. Images works with several Toronto galleries and other
alternative exhibition spaces to show media art installations which
incorporate the moving image, interactive media and performativity.